http://www.mail.com/locations/23948-albany.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/23948-albany.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2151212-upstate-ny-to-host-annual-farm-aid-benefit-concert.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Singer Willie Nelson is taking his annual Farm Aid benefit concert to upstate New York with an all-day festival of music and locally grown food in September. The event in Saratoga Springs, 28 miles north of Albany, will feature Nelson and other Farm Aid board members John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews, as well as other artis... Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:27:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2151212-upstate-ny-to-host-annual-farm-aid-benefit-concert.html 2013-06-14T04:27:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2110794-ny-plane-crash-passengers-idd-patient-wife.html EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) — A brain cancer patient and his wife were on board the volunteer medical flight piloted by a Connecticut man that crashed in a wooded area of central New York, authorities said Sunday. Frank and Evelyn Amerosa of Utica were aboard an Angel Flight on Friday night when the twin-engine aircraft went down in Ephratah, a sleepy town about ... Mon, 27 May 2013 03:23:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2110794-ny-plane-crash-passengers-idd-patient-wife.html 2013-05-27T03:23:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2073318-philippine-police-ex-marine-murder-weapon-linked.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 20 months after the bodies of a retired Northern Ireland police officer and his girlfriend were found in a Philippines bedroom littered with bullet casings, authorities seeking the extradition of a former U.S. Marine say they have linked him to guns used in the killings and recovered blood-splattered jeans he tried to have burned. ... Thu, 09 May 2013 19:46:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2073318-philippine-police-ex-marine-murder-weapon-linked.html 2013-05-09T19:46:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2073304-ex-lawmaker-to-sentenced-nyc-fraud-case.html NEW YORK (AP) — A 74-year-old former New York State lawmaker who secretly recorded other politicians in a bid for leniency for her role in a corruption scandal faces up to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to embezzling money. Shirley Huntley is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court after pleading guilty to mail fraud con... Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2073304-ex-lawmaker-to-sentenced-nyc-fraud-case.html 2013-05-09T15:00:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2057134-frosty-start-upstate-ny-ice-cream-truck-season.html GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The chilly relationship between rival upstate New York ice cream truck operators got out of hand this season, with Sno Cone Joe trying to chase Mr. Ding-A-Ling out of the market, authorities said Wednesday. Gloversville police told local media outlets two Sno Cone Joe operators face harassment and stalking charges after heated co... Wed, 01 May 2013 21:25:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2057134-frosty-start-upstate-ny-ice-cream-truck-season.html 2013-05-01T21:25:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2038352-ny-suspects-asked-hard-drives-to-hold-evidence.html WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The government's evidence in a political corruption case — audio and video recordings, text messages, emails and more — is so voluminous that each of the six defendants is being asked to provide a 150-gigabyte hard drive to hold it. The hard drives will be used to share the evidence with defense lawyers, federal prosecutor Alvin ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:17:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2038352-ny-suspects-asked-hard-drives-to-hold-evidence.html 2013-04-23T21:17:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2016204-ny-district-mulls-action-nazi-assignment.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A high school English teacher faces disciplinary action for giving a writing assignment that asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany, Albany school district officials said Friday. Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said administrators were discussing what official action the uni... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:33:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2016204-ny-district-mulls-action-nazi-assignment.html 2013-04-12T20:33:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1998602-correction-ammunition-frenzy-story.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In some versions of a story April 4 and 5 about ammunition sales, The Associated Press erroneously attributed the comment, "This is legitimate gun owners buying. I don't think criminals are stockpiling." The speaker was Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, not upstate New York marksman Bruce Martindale. ... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:54:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1998602-correction-ammunition-frenzy-story.html 2013-04-05T15:54:46Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1997220-advocates-call-reforms-ny-scandal.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The latest in a long string of New York political scandals shows the ongoing need to remove money from Albany politics, advocates for campaign finance reform said. A day after Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran, two high-ranking city Republican Party officials and the mayor and deputy mayor of suburban... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:28:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1997220-advocates-call-reforms-ny-scandal.html 2013-04-04T19:28:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1994694-lawmaker-accused-bribes-nyc-mayor-race-plot.html NEW YORK (AP) — For the politically ambitious, running as a Republican is sometimes the best way a Democrat can increase his electoral odds in New York City's crowded mayoral race. Now, a federal prosecutor says one Democratic state lawmaker went too far by offering GOP bosses bribes in order to get on their ballot. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Tuesda... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:38:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1994694-lawmaker-accused-bribes-nyc-mayor-race-plot.html 2013-04-03T07:38:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1992800-ny-sen-arrested-alleged-mayor-race-plot.html NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to GOP bosses to let him run for mayor of New York City as a Republican. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called it an "unappetizing smorgasbord of graft and greed" that reveals a New York political... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:48:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1992800-ny-sen-arrested-alleged-mayor-race-plot.html 2013-04-02T23:48:35Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1988516-apnewsbreak-gas-trade-group-seeks-fracking-probe.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group that includes Yoko Ono and other A-List celebrities, is violating the state's lobbying law, according to the document obtained by The Associated Press. The Independent Oil & Gas Association, an industry group that su... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:46:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1988516-apnewsbreak-gas-trade-group-seeks-fracking-probe.html 2013-03-30T23:46:08Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1964040-snow-socked-northeast-spring.html BOSTON (AP) — Snow and sleet blasted the Northeast on the last full day of winter Tuesday, closing schools and turning roads into a slick mess that got the Harlem Globetrotters' bus into a minor accident. Some places were looking at well over a foot of snow by the end of a storm that commuters hoped would be the last. Unwelcome as it was, there's nothing ... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:19:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1964040-snow-socked-northeast-spring.html 2013-03-20T01:19:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1964074-witness-breaks-nyc-stop-and-frisk-trial.html NEW YORK (AP) — A nonprofit worker wept on the witness stand Tuesday as he described an unnerving episode of being handcuffed near his home while an officer took his keys and went inside his building. Nicholas Peart, a 24-year-old black man, is one of about a dozen New Yorkers expected to tell their stories of being stopped, questioned and frisked by poli... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:10:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1964074-witness-breaks-nyc-stop-and-frisk-trial.html 2013-03-20T00:10:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1958198-woman-killed-child-raped-ny-mall-carjacking.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York man previously charged with having child pornography cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle before carjacking a woman, fatally stabbing her and raping her 10-year-old daughter, authorities said. David J. Renz, 29, abducted a school librarian and her daughter as they left a gymnastics class at a mall in th... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:46:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1958198-woman-killed-child-raped-ny-mall-carjacking.html 2013-03-15T20:46:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1946778-va-wont-follow-york-gun-law.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The federal Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday its mental health professionals won't comply with a new gun law in New York that requires reporting the names of patients they believe likely to hurt themselves or others. That provision is set to take effect Saturday. Several veterans and their advocates warned it would deter many... Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:01:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1946778-va-wont-follow-york-gun-law.html 2013-03-11T19:01:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1940058-ny-widow-convicted-charge-servant-was-illegal.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A hotelier's widow who had been accused of cheating an Indian household servant out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and keeping her a virtual prisoner at a mansion was found guilty Friday of knowingly keeping the woman in the country illegally but won't have to pay her. Annie George, whose husband died in a plane crash, h... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:59:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1940058-ny-widow-convicted-charge-servant-was-illegal.html 2013-03-08T22:59:31Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1920922-opponents-ny-gun-law-gathering-albany.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of opponents of New York's new gun control law gathered Thursday at the statehouse to lobby lawmakers and rally against measures they say infringe on their constitutional right to bear arms. Two lines in the morning stretched through the underground concourse of Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany, with a mass of demonstrat... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:09:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1920922-opponents-ny-gun-law-gathering-albany.html 2013-02-28T16:09:48Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1920460-ny-to-exempt-tv-movies-under-states-gun-law.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York sought to combat violence by rushing the nation's toughest gun control measure into law after the Connecticut school shootings that killed 26 people, but the state is now carving out an exemption to make sure movie and TV producers can stage running gun battles on Manhattan streets. Movie and TV productions have long been cour... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:13:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1920460-ny-to-exempt-tv-movies-under-states-gun-law.html 2013-02-28T00:13:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1915306-ny-assemblyman-apologizes-blackface-costume.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York assemblyman who at first vigorously defended wearing blackface, an Afro wig and a basketball jersey to a costume party apologized Monday, saying he didn't mean to hurt anyone. Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind wore the basketball garb at his own party in his home to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, for which costumes a... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:08:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1915306-ny-assemblyman-apologizes-blackface-costume.html 2013-02-26T01:08:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1845700-ny-dad-forgets-baby-car-8-hours-cold-day.html COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York man who left his 1-year-old son in his car for eight hours in frigid weather only realized his mistake after a call from his wife. Police in the Albany suburb of Colonie say the man forgot to drop off his son at day care and left the child strapped in the back seat of the car when he parked outside his offic... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1845700-ny-dad-forgets-baby-car-8-hours-cold-day.html 2013-01-25T13:53:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1832348-thousands-rally-stricter-gun-control-us.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gun advocates — some with rifles slung across shoulders or pistols holstered at the hip — have rallied peacefully in state capitals nationwide against President Barack Obama's sweeping federal gun-control proposals. Summoned via social media for the "Guns Across America" event, participants gathered Saturday for protests large and sma... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1832348-thousands-rally-stricter-gun-control-us.html 2013-01-20T14:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1823792-gun-enthusiasts-decry-controls-passed-ny.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As New York lawmakers approved the nation's toughest gun control laws, the first since the Connecticut school shooting, gun enthusiasts lined up to criticize the state for what they called an overreach driven by political ambition. Signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, the New York legislation tightens a ban on assault-style... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1823792-gun-enthusiasts-decry-controls-passed-ny.html 2013-01-16T07:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1821266-ny-passes-us-gun-control-law-massacre.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law less than an hour after it won final p... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1821266-ny-passes-us-gun-control-law-massacre.html 2013-01-15T21:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1819930-ny-poised-to-1st-to-pass-post-massacre-gun-bill.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Days after calling for an overhaul of gun control in New York following the Connecticut school shooting, Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked out a tough proposal on gun control with legislative leaders who promised to pass the most restrictive gun law in the nation. The measure passed the Senate 43-18 on the strength of support from Democrats, ma... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1819930-ny-poised-to-1st-to-pass-post-massacre-gun-bill.html 2013-01-15T03:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1810538-nys-cuomo-sets-sights-high-gun-control.html ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiery State of the State speech pushed the state onto the national stage over gun control and other progressive issues that some observers said better positioned the governor for a possible 2016 run for president. "The tragic events of just the last few weeks in Newtown, Conn., and West Webster, N.Y., have ... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1810538-nys-cuomo-sets-sights-high-gun-control.html 2013-01-10T07:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1810582-owners-try-to-items-stolen-ny-burglaries.html It wasn't Francesco Venturiello's night. The Schenectady man whose home was burglarized in May was among the hundreds of people who came to the village of Hudson Falls on Wednesday, hoping to identify their stolen property. But he and his wife left empty-handed. For five years, someone prowled rural counties in upstate New York, pilfer... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1810582-owners-try-to-items-stolen-ny-burglaries.html 2013-01-10T06:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1808132-police-ny-seek-owners-30000-pieces-bling.html For five years, someone prowled rural counties in upstate New York, pilfering pearl necklaces, gold chains, bracelets, coins, silverware and other valuables from an untold number of homes. Now authorities face the daunting task of finding owners of the roughly 30,000 items discovered in 31 duffel bags after John Suddard's recent arrest on charges of posse... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1808132-police-ny-seek-owners-30000-pieces-bling.html 2013-01-10T04:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1791516-weeks-2nd-snowstorm-hits-northeast-parts-ohio.html NEW YORK (AP) — A widespread winter storm dumped snow over the Northeast and parts of Ohio on Saturday, just days after the regions were hit by another storm moving from the nation's midsection. The National Weather Service expected up to a foot of snow in parts of southern New England, with the heaviest snowfall possibly in Providence, R.I., and Boston, ... Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1791516-weeks-2nd-snowstorm-hits-northeast-parts-ohio.html 2012-12-30T04:02:00Z